Phison extends aiDAPTIV+ to boost AI inference on PCs
Phison is extending its aiDAPTIV+ SSD technology to target AI key-value cache workloads, aiming to expand effective GPU memory and speed up inference on personal computers.
The SSD controller and...
Micron jumps to PCIe Gen 5 and QLC for client SSDs
The Micron 3610 NVMe SSD is the industry’s first PCIe Gen5 QLC client SSD, powered by Micron G9 NAND and offering significantly higher performance than PCIe Gen 4 drives.
The...
Storage Ticker – 6 January 2026
Backblaze has appointed Dan Spraggins as SVP of Engineering to scale its global storage cloud. He now oversees Backblaze's engineering organization, architecting the distributed systems needed to handle the...
Nvidia pushes AI inference context out to NVMe SSDs
Nvidia has moved to address growing KV cache capacity limits by standardizing the offload of inference context to NVMe SSDs through its new Inference Context Memory Storage Platform (ICMSP)....
Storage news ticker – December 18
DNA storage startup Atlas Data Storage CEO Varun Mehta has written a blog, "Woolly Mammoth DNA Can Last 1.2 M Years. Can our Data?" He says: "At Atlas DS,...
Micron rides HBM surge to record quarter
Surging demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) in AI servers pushed Micron to new quarterly heights.
Revenues in the quarter ended November 27 were $13.64 billion, up 56.6 percent on the...
Quobyte brings GPU-converged storage to AI clusters
Quobyte has introduced GPU-converged storage to bring data in its parallel file system and object storage software closer to GPUs, and scale as GPU servers are added.
The idea is...
IDC storage tracker shows Pure and Huawei growing fastest
Third 2025 quarter storage revenues grew - due to mid-range all-flash array sales
IDC published its external OEM Enterprise Storage Systems (ESS) world-wide market tracker market numbers for 2025’s third...
Storage news ticker – 12 December 2025
Backblaze’s Patrick Thomas, head of go-to-market (GTM), will present a theater session at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations, & Cloud Strategies Conference 2025 (Gartner IOCS), taking place December 9–11...
The nature of the VAST Data beast
Analysis. VAST Data has had a hectic year as the Generative AI training boom has provided an enormous tailwind for its business progress. As a private company, it has...
Storage news ticker – 10 December 2025
Data mover connector builder Airbyte announced updates that provide faster data transfers and predictable pricing.
It is up to 95% less expensive to perform high-volume Snowflake syncs, depending on the...
AI data pipelines matter more than models
Scality, the object storage supplier, believes that the idea of competing businesses differentiating themselves by the particular AI foundation model they use is mistaken.
Model features will converge. What matters...